diff --git a/wetb/fatigue_tools/rainflowcounting/compile.py b/wetb/fatigue_tools/rainflowcounting/compile.py
index ba4576622a7bb3bfc76fbef7c76379d63cf64ed5..0c77dbd78327ad45cf66363519a0ddcb9a8edd49 100644
--- a/wetb/fatigue_tools/rainflowcounting/compile.py
+++ b/wetb/fatigue_tools/rainflowcounting/compile.py
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ from __future__ import absolute_import
 from future import standard_library
 standard_library.install_aliases()
 from wetb.utils.cython_compile.cython_compile import cython_import
-cython_import('pair_range')
-cython_import('peak_trough')
-cython_import('rainflowcount_astm')
+if __name__=="__main__":
+    cython_import('pair_range')
+    cython_import('peak_trough')
+    cython_import('rainflowcount_astm')
diff --git a/wetb/hawc2/ascii2bin/Example.py b/wetb/hawc2/ascii2bin/Example.py
index 38785246e1e7a920711ce2ad2fbfdd21ec8378bf..b0afee5e9af2d676c50a77d3618534446f18c337 100644
--- a/wetb/hawc2/ascii2bin/Example.py
+++ b/wetb/hawc2/ascii2bin/Example.py
@@ -11,6 +11,6 @@ from future import standard_library
 standard_library.install_aliases()
 from wetb.hawc2.ascii2bin.ascii2bin import ascii2bin
 
-
-ascii2bin(r"tests/hawc2ascii.sel", "temp_hawc2ascii.sel")
+if __name__=="__main__":
+    ascii2bin(r"tests/hawc2ascii.sel", "temp_hawc2ascii.sel")
 
diff --git a/wetb/hawc2/ascii2bin/make_exe.py b/wetb/hawc2/ascii2bin/make_exe.py
index 7e31b83af2c8607331179e01e6b267da5b002daa..f83d484053dfced58c02bf680cfa8cdbfbebff2d 100644
--- a/wetb/hawc2/ascii2bin/make_exe.py
+++ b/wetb/hawc2/ascii2bin/make_exe.py
@@ -7,10 +7,7 @@ from __future__ import division, print_function, absolute_import, unicode_litera
 from future import standard_library
 standard_library.install_aliases()
 from build_exe.cx.build_cx_exe import NUMPY
-try: range = xrange; xrange = None
-except NameError: pass
-try: str = unicode; unicode = None
-except NameError: pass
 
 from build_exe.cx import build_cx_exe
-build_cx_exe.build_exe("ascii2bin.py", version="3.0.1", includes=["'pandas'"], modules=['email', NUMPY])
+if __name__=="__main__":
+    build_cx_exe.build_exe("ascii2bin.py", version="3.0.1", includes=["'pandas'"], modules=['email', NUMPY])